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A63938	An essay towards an history of all the remarkable providences which have happened in this present age As also of what is curious in the works of nature and art. With parallel instances from former ages. By William Turner, M.A. and Vicar of Walberton in Sussex. To be publish'd by way of subscription.	Turner, W. (William), fl. 1687-1701.	1695 (1695)	Wing T3345A; ESTC R222428	12,448	4

2. p. 483. Chaplain hath left it on Record concerning him That he received the Communion from his hands with much seeming Devotion about two years before his death than which there cannot be a more express acknowledgment of the truth of Christianity And this methinks should daunt the confidence of his Followers the Hobbists who because he was born on Goodfriday are not ashamed blasphemously to say That as our Saviour Christ went out of the world on that day to save the men of the world so another Saviour came into the world on that day to save them But the next instance of the E. of Rochester is still more convincing who as it appears by his Funeral Sermon did with very much abhorrence exclaim against that absurd and foolish Philosophy which the World so much admired and was propagated by the late Mr. Hobbs and others which had undone him and many more of the best parts of the Nation My Lord Rochester being awakt from his Spiritual Slumber by a pungent Sickness as appears by his Funeral * See my Ld. Rochester's Funeral Sermon Preached by Mr. Parsons Aug. 9. 1680. Sermon Preached by Mr. Parsons Aug. 9. 1680. Upon the Preachers first Visit to him May 26. my Lord thankt God who had in Mercy and good Providence sent him to him who so much needed his Prayers and Counsels acknowledging how unworthily heretofore he had treated that Order of men reproaching them that they were proud and Prophesied only for Rewards but now he had learnt how to value them that he esteem'd them the Servants of the most high God who were to shew to him the way to everlasting Life He commanded me continues our Author to Preach abroad and let all men know if they knew it not already how severely God had disciplin'd him for his sins by his Afflicting Hand that his sufferings were most Just tho he had laid ten Thousand times more upon him how he had laid one stripe upon another because of his grievous Provocation till he had brought him home to himself that in his former Visitation he had not that blessed Effect he was now sensible of he had formerly some loose thoughts and slight Resolutions of reforming and design'd to be better because even the present consequences of sin were still pestering him and were so troublesome and inconvenient to him but now he had other sentiments of things and a●●●d upon other principles He was willing to die if it pleased God resigning himself always to the Divine Disposal but if God should spare him yet a longer time here he hoped to bring Glory to the Name of God in the whole course of his Life and particularly by his Endeavours to convince others and to assure them of the Danger of their Conditions if they continued Impenitent and how graciously God hath dealt with him The time of his Sickness and Repentance was just nine Weeks in all which time thirty hours about the middle of it excepted wherein he was delirous he was so much Master of his Reason and had so clear an understanding that he never dictated or spake more composed in his Life Three or four days before his Death he had Comfortable Perswasions of God's accepting him to his mercy saying I shall Die but Oh what unspeakable Glories do I see What Joys beyond Thought or Expression am I sensible of I am assured of God's mercy to me through Jesus Christ O! how I long to die and to be with my Saviour His Dying Remonstrance For the benefit of all those whom I may have drawn into sin by my Example and Encouragement I leave to the World this my last Declaration which I deliv●r in the presence of the great God who knows the Secrets of all Hearts and before whom I am now appearing to be Judged The Lord Rochester's dying Remonstrance That from the bottom of my Soul I detest and abhor the whole Course of my former wicked Life that I think I can never sufficiently admire the Goodness of God who has given me a lively sense of my pernicious Opinions and vile practices by which I have hitherto Liv'd without hope and without God in the World have been an open Enemy to Jesus Christ doing the Vtmost despire to the holy Spirit of Grace and that the greatest Testimony of my Charity to such is to warn them in the name of God and as they regard the welfare of their immortal Souls no more to deny his being or his providence or despise his Goodness no more to make a mock of sin or contemn the pure and excellent Religion of my ever Blessed Redemer thro' whose Merits alone I one of the Greatest of Sinners do yet hope for Mercy and Forgivenness Amen Declared in the presence of Anne Rochester Rob. Parsons J. Rochester We had prepared a larger account of this remarkable penitence of the E. of Rochester but for want of room must reserve it for that further Specimen of this work which is to be annext to a New Peice of Mr. Turner's now in the Press entituled An Essay upon the Works of Creation and Providence c. which will be publisht in few days being design'd as an Introductory Discourse to this History of Providence To this further Specimen will be added a Penitential Letter writ by a Person of Quality in Glostershire lately deceas'd with other Remarkable Instances of that Nature never yet in Print which for want of room cou'd not be inserted here But though this Specimen will not allow of instances under every head for if it wou'd we had added Specimens upon the Works of Nature and Art as we have done here upon Providence having prepared materials for that end yet by what is here exhibited the ingenious Reader may easily perceive the usefulness of our design and as a further Evidence thereof we shall only add That under the Head of Attestations given to Religion by dying Princes who acknowledg'd the same to be preferable to all things else We shall from the best Authorities Record the last sayings of our never enough Lamented Soveraign the late Q. Mary as a Noble Testimony to Religion from one whose Parts and Endowments were as high as her Dignity as if Providence would not leave the prophane Age room to say that Religion was only pretended to by the mean and ignorant but convince them by the dying Breath of a Princess every way so Glorious and Great Under the Head of Signal Deliverances we doubt not but the Reader will easily be convinc'd that the Relation of the Miraculous Deliverance of the Protestants in Ireland from the Crueltys of Q. Mary I. As also the Account of Sir Henry Wyat's wonderful Preservation in the Tower will deserve a place the First being Attested by Bishop Vsher and delivered to the Publisher by a Person of Quality now living in London and is wholly omitted by Mr. Fox in his Acts and Monuments and the other being drawn up by a Learned Gentleman and never Printed before Of these things we shall treat more at large in the Body of the Work but think this sufficient to whet the Reader 's Curiosity and to give him a taste of what Entertainment he is to expect under other Heads as well as these mentioned When our further Specimen is ready for Publication there will be notice given

from VVicked men and Devils what Emphasis is there in Nebuchadnezzars Acknowledgement that the most high doth according to his will in the Army of Heav'n and among the Inhabitants of the Earth and none can stay his hand or say unto him what dost thou Dan. 6.35 And tho our blessed Saviour disdain'd such a Testimony yet the Power and Majesty of God was mightily seen in that Confession which we find so often extorted from the Devils in the Gospel that he was the Holy one of God and the Son of the most High and when we Consider those passages and that Divine Air which sounds in the declaration of the false prophet Balaam Num. 24. I shall see him but not now I shall behold him but not nigh there shall come a Star out of Jacob and a Scepter shall rise out of Israel We have no reason to doubt but that the Lofty Rapture of the Oracle of Delphos may be true 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Which I find thus Ingeniously translated into Latin and English Me puer Hebraeus Divos Deus ipse Gubernans Cedere sede jubet triftemque redire sub orcum Aris ergo dehinc tacitis abscedito nostris An Hebrew Child whom the blest Gods adore Hath bid me leave these shrines and pack to Hell So that of Oracles I can no more In silence leave our Altar and farewel Upon the return of which Answer from that Oracle the Emperor Augustus caused an Altar to be Erected in the Capitol with this Inscription haec est ara primogeniti Dei And the famous Acknowledgment of Julian the Apostate when mortally wounded by an Arrow Julian the Apostate dies acknowledging the Truth of the Christian Religion Vicisti tandem Galilee is another remarkable instance of the power of God in extorting a Confession of the Truth of Christianity from one of its most implacable Enemies This we think sufficient as a Taste of what may be produced as to Confessions of God and Christ which have been extorted by Remarkable Providences in preceeding Ages and we have reason to bless his Holy Name that he hath not left us without Observable Attestations of the same Nature in this present Age. The first we shall mention are the Earl of Marlbourgh's Letters from on Board the Fleet. April 24. 1665. The Earl of Marlbourgh whose two most Devout and Penitential Letters are herewith Publish'd was a person of great understanding and wit The Scene of his Life lay chiefly in Voyages and expeditions by Sea whereby he made many laborious attempts to repair the Collapsed Estate of his Ancestors but it pleased not God to give him the Success he hoped for therein It is wholly unfit for any Writer to touch upon any irreligious principles or practises that were as stains in his Life since he hath by his own Noble Pen in the following Letters acknowledged them and by his most exemplary Repentance washed them off Mr. Roger Coke in the second Volume of his Detection p. 142 mentions That the Fight wherein the Duke of York beat the Dutch and Opdam was blown up was the 3d of June 1665. and that in this Fight the English lost the Renown'd Earl of Marlbourgh who tho Admiral in K. Charles the firsts time died here a private Captain But it pleased God in that Naval Expedition to work in him such a sense of his Sins as did infinitely make amends for the former disappointments he met with by Sea or Land The Date of his first Letter being the 24th of April and that of the Second the 23d of May following will satisfy any candid Reader that the New Birth in him was accompanied with may pangs and efforts of great consideration during the firmness of his bodily Health and much transcending the low Nature of poor Death-bed Repentances which are so justly suspected by our Practical Divines of all perswasions And here it is necessary to acquaint the Reader that these two Letters of distant Dates were sent by his Lordship from the Royal Navy inclosed in other Letters to Mr. Tredewy his Lordship's Agent in London with a particular Instruction both as to that to Sir Hugh Pollard and that to Mr. Glascock that each of them was to be delivered when Mr. Tredewy was credibly inform'd of his Lordships Death His design being that his Pen should Preach Repentance to the World in case he lived not to be a personal Adviser thereof himself The Publisher hereof assures the Reader that both the Letters had a happy influence on the Lives of the two persons to whom they were directed and that Sir Hugh Pollard having lent the Original Letter which was sent to him to Sir W. Davenant to shew it to whom he pleased Sir VVilliam shew'd it to the Publisher among many others And that Mr. Glascock permitted the Publisher to take a Copy of that Letter directed to him The Reader may then awaken his most serious Thoughts to consider the two following Letters A Letter from the right Honourable James Earl of Marlbourgh a little before his Death in the Battle at Sea on the Coast of Holland 1665 To the right Honourable Sir Hugh Pollard Comptroller of His Majesties House-hold Sir See Dr. Lloyd's fair warning to a careless world for a Copy of this Letter of the Earl of Marlebourgh to Sir Hugh Pollard I Believe the goodness of your Nature and the Friendship you have always born me will receive with kindness this last Office of your Friend I am in Health enough of Body and through the mercy of God in Jesus Christ well disposed in mind This I premise that you may be satisfied that what I write proceeds not from any Phantastick Terror of mind but from a sober Resolution of what concerns my self and earnest desire to do you more good after my Death than mine Example God of his mercy pardon the badness of it in my life-Life-time may have done you harm I will not speak ought of the Vanity of this World your own Age and Experience will save that Labour but there is a certain thing that goes up and down in the World call'd Religion Drest and Presented Phantastically and to purposes bad enough which yet by such evil Dealing loseth not its Being The great and good God hath not left it without a Witness more or lefs sooner or later in every mans bosom to direct us in the pursuit of it and for the avoiding of those Inextricable difficulties and intanglements our own frail Reason would perplex us withal God in his infinite mercy has given us his Holy word in which as there are many things hard to be Understood so there is enough plain and easy to be understood to quiet our minds and direct us concerning our future being I confess to God and you I have been a great neglecter and I fear despiser of it God of his infinite mercy pardon me that dreadful Fault but when